Johnson hails UK ‘society’ response to Covid-19 outbreak | Malay Mail

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LONDON, April 1 — It’s one of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s most famous quotes, which opposition parties have long used to attack the ideology of her Conservative party. But her latest successor Boris Johnson has countered the Tory icon’s claim that “there’s no such...

A woman wearing a mask and gloves in Brixton as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues in London March 31, 2020. — Reuters pic

A further 20,000 retired doctors, nurses and other former healthcare professionals are also returning to the medical frontline, as the virus takes hold. “There’s no such thing as society,” she said in a magazine interview in 1987. “There are individual men and women and there are families.” Even Brexit — Britain’s divisive departure from the European Union — has been seen as part of a global trend away from international cooperation.

History professor Richard Vinen, from King’s College London, suggested the prime minister knowingly used a famous quote that had been “wilfully taken out of context” over the years.

 

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